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D-2 LIFESTYLE Friday, ADril 2. 1993 Green Bav Press-Gazette for another Reconciliation Day Shclnwold on bridge lives. So here I am again, suggest feelings the misunderstandings and unmended fences that separated us and set up barriers. I have a close friend in New York I haven't spoken to in three years. Another 28-year relationship in Seattle is on the rocks.

We're both 41 now, and time is marching on. I think of my mother and her sister, who haven't spoken to each other in five years. As a result of that argument, my cousin and I haven't spoken either. I don't know if she has children. Neither of us has met the other's husband.

What a waste of precious time! I'm sure there are millions of people in your reading audience who could tell similar stories. Wouldn't it be terrific if a special day could be set aside to reach out and make amends? We could call it "Reconciliation Day." Everyone would vow to write a letter or make a phone call and mend a strained or broken relationship. It could also be the day on which we would all agree to accept the olive branch extended by a former friend. This day could be the starting place. We could go on from here to heal the wounds in our hearts and rejoice in a brand new beginning.

Van Nuys Dear Readers: Perhaps many of you will remember that last year I suggested this special day be set aside to forgive old wounds and reach out to those with whom we may have lost touch. Last year's column resulted in so many heartwarming letters from people eager to tell me how much it meant to them to have heard from someone whom they thought they had lost from their i's time Dear Ann: Recently, I attended a funeral. It made me realize how short life can be. I discovered while chatting with friends and relatives that many of them were divorcing, feuding or not speaking to one another. Usually these rifta were caused by a cross word or action that wasn't meant to hurt anyone.

We've all been wronged at one time or another. Even if we can't say, "I'm sorry," we can say, "It doesn't matter whose fault it was. Let's forget it." I read about Reconciliation Day in your column last year when you helped so many people put aside their differences. Please do it again. Rhode Island Dear Rhode Island: Today is the second anniversary of Reconciliation Day.

Here is the letter that started it all. Thanks for ask- From D-1 Scott He played in a campus jazz trio that performed at local coffeehouses, but didn't begin acting in theater productions until he was a junior. "I didn't like all those theatre people. I thought they were too expressive," he said. "I would rather hide out in my room.

I was very shy." Scott later emerged as one of the "good actors" on campus, but he said he was never regarded as the department's standout. Ten years later, after high exposure on the movie screen opposite Julia Roberts, Bruce Davison and Bridget Fonda, Scott is still not a standout on campus. He slips in and out of the usual campus hangouts theater, cafeteria, student ing that perhaps today is the day you ought to pick up the phone or write a letter that will bnng so much joy to someone who might be in pain. Life is too short to hold grudges To be able to forgive can be enormously healing and life-enhancing. It's the best example of casting your bread upon the waters and getting back caviar sandwiches.

Do it today. Gem of the Day: If you keep doing what you've always done, you will keep getting what you've always gotten. Landers is a syndicated columnist. Send questions to Ann Landers, Creator's Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Suite 700, Los Angeles, Calif.

90045 stance. As Vance plays him, Jim is noble rather than childlike, a spiritually enlightened man who longs to be freed from injustice. The film itself shifts tones frequently, from the sobriety of Huck's encounter with two feuding families to the broad comedy involving the King and Duke. The film only really comes to life when Robards and Coltrane join the fun. Huck Finn also suffers from its Huck Finn.

Elijah Wood is as engaging an 11-year-old as you're likely to see, a seasoned performer who was winning in such films as Avalon and Forever Youne. But he seems too much the performer. I Politically correct 'Huck Finn' a bit bland for adult viewers coupon expires 41093 Actor Scott headlines cast of impressive graduates But kids might like it enough to want to pick up Twain's books By Marshall Fine Gannett News Service As these things go, The Adventures ofHuck Finn isn't a disgrace or a disaster. If it inspires a new generation to take up Mark Twain's classic (and its prequel, lorn bawyer), so much the better. Still, this Disney version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is bland stuff with a strain of political correctness.

It's aimed squarely at the pre-teen crowd, with its cuddly young hero and his proud black companion. As a cinematic introduction to Twain, it's fine; as an interpretation of Twain, it's lacking. Wntten and directed by new comer Stephen Sommers, this Huck Finn basically follows the outline of the book. Huck (Elijah Wood) still is the lovable rascal, living with the Widow Douglas (Dana Ivey), hanging out with his friend, the slave Jim (Courtney Vance). He gets in trouble when his drunkard father, Pap (Ron Perlman), comes back and snatch- JSJJJJJJU ALLOUEZ Cafe LENTEN SPECIALS Perch Plate '480 Perch Dinner 96K Salmon Loaf M50 Deep Fried Haddock $4M Egg Salad Sandwich and Cup of Clam Full menu.

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He runs into Jim, who has decided to light out for a free state, in hopes of earning the money to buy his family. When Jim becomes chief suspect in Huck's bogus murder, they both hop a canoe in the Mississippi and head south. The movie follows their adventures, concluding with the comic escapade involving the classic con men: the King (Jason Robards) and the Duke (Robbie Coltrane). Sommers shifts the ending to remove Tom Sawyer from the story and focus on Huck's awakening to the injustice of slavery. The changes in the character of Jim are more of tone than of sub- "Become A Friend Lover" April 16, 7 p.m.

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My aunts and uncles are sick. I haven't seen some of my cousins for several years. I love my family, Ann, but we've grown apart. Then my thoughts turn to the dark side. I remember the feelings I've hurt, and I recall my own hurt union without any celebrity hoopla.

An occasional handshake or introduction from a student is as much attention as he draws. "No one has ever made a big fuss over me, which is what I want. I'm not into all that crap. I'm low key." Scott checks the time, slips on a jacket, slings his backpack over his shoulder and heads across campus to the theater. From a distance, he looks like just another student.

But from within, he knows how different he is. "I think I have changed a lot and Lawrence has changed a little. I've grown up a lot no doubt about it. I've gotten less spoiled. Being an actor isn't the happiest job in the world.

It's years of rejection and unemployment and being broke, but I've been lucky." Stand-up comedian who has performed at Igby's in Los Angeles, The Comedy Store in London and Catch a Rising Star in Las Vegas. Eric Simonson ('83): Currently directing The Song of Jacob Zulu on Broadway. The show, as well as Simonson's directing abilities, earned rave reviews from The New York Times. Christopher Oakley ('85): Director and animator who worked on Bud Bowl I and Bud Bowl II commercials. "There are a lot of people out there who have done well.

That's a lot of activity in the last seven decades," Gaines said. About 30 of the department's alumni will be flying in from cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles for this weekend's theater reunion. It's an opportunity for alumni to socialize as well educate current students. Saturday's sessions on such topics as animation, women and the arts and theater design are open to students and the public. Filing Bankruptcy Two Reason To Exercise Your Rights Under Federal Bankruptcy Law: 1.

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2 p.m. $11.50 adults, $7.50 children in advance $13.50 adults, $8.50 children day of show. Theater department proves it knows how to stand test of time By Kendra Meinert Press-Gazette APPLETON If Lawrence University's theater department has a secret to churning out successful graduates, only time will tell. Ted Cloak founded the department in 1929 at a time when it was still a rarity for univereitys the size of Lawrence to have such a luxury. In the 64 years since, it has not only endured but earned itself a reputation for attracting and producing quality students.

"It's all tradition," said Fred Gaines, one of the department's only two full-time faculty members. "Because they (Cloak) were good, they attracted good people. And because they were good, they succeeded." Actor Campbell Scott is perhaps the best known alumni, but he headlines a cast of impressive graduates that includes: Dana Doyle ('79): Screenwriter who has written scripts for The Disney Channel, The Trials ofRo-sie O'Neill and Tour of Duty. Rob Brackenridge ('83): Footloose Over 30 Singles Dance Music By RENT AD. J.

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